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Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)

Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 53

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as amodel of its kind. How much more powerful, cries theLatin critic, is the effect upon the spectator when theartist represents his subject in action and not fixed and inrepose. It was in this precisely that the merit of the sculp-tor consisted. Many had previously represented the quoit-player… … The Statue of the Quoit-thrower.

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